Four more arrests made in connection with murder of state trooper

BREMERTON - The Kitsap County Sheriff's Office has made four additional arrests in connection with the fatal shooting of Washington State Patrol Trooper Tony Radulescu.

One of the people arrested is an 18-year-old South Kitsap woman who authorities believe was in Joshua Blake's truck when he shot and killed Radulescu, according to a statement released late Friday by Kitsap County Sheriff's Office spokesman Sgt. Ken Dickinson. She is being held at the Kitsap County jail on a charge of rendering criminal assistance, with bail set at $500,000.

The three others arrested Friday are all being held on the same charge. They include a 30-year-old South Kitsap man; a 26-year-old South Kitsap woman; and a 37-year-old South Kitsap man.

Information on those three suspects, including their identities and how they are alleged to have rendered assistance to Blake, was not immediately available Friday.

A fifth person, Jessi L. Foster, 32, of Port Orchard, had already been arrested Thursday afternoon. Foster, Blake's ex-girlfriend, faces the same rendering assistance charge and is also being held on $500,000 bail.

Investigators say Blake, a 28-year-old Port Orchard man with a long criminal history, shot and killed Radulescu during a traffic stop at about 1 a.m. Thursday.

Blake died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound about 12 hours later at Tacoma General Hospital after he shot himself at a Scofield Road residence. Foster was with Blake when he shot himself, and authorities allege that she tried to help him plot a get-away.

All four of the suspects arrested Friday are expected to be arraigned in Kitsap County Superior Court on Monday, according to Dickinson's statement.

The statement added that no additional information will be released "for the immediate future."